Chapter 7
Coaching assignment: structure and process
The only journey is the one within.
Rainer Maria Rilke
This chapter offers a supporting structure for a coaching assignment. By an assignment I mean a series of coaching sessions, to work on agreed topics and themes. For example, six sessions over a period of 10 months, perhaps to help the coachee realise a goal or focus generally on their personal development.
As a coach, when you think in terms of an overall assignment, you are able to plan and structure your involvement, which helps you to:
- create the foundation for an effective coaching experience for your coachee
- establish principles of success: e.g. ‘Here’s how we will work together’
- explain and predict costs for potential clients
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